Blossom and Bubbles comes down with Spotted Piglet Fever and have to skip school. When the Professor is needed at a job interview, Buttercup, seeing an opportunity to take a day off from school herself, offers to look after the two in his place. But when she neglects to do her duties properly, the girls' symptoms get worse and Buttercup has to take responsibility when their sickness turns them into giant warthogs.
Tropes:
- Animorphism: Blossom and Bubbles turn into giant Warthogs thanks to their sickness.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The symptoms of Spotted Piglet Fever are snorting, red dots on the skin, and delusions of climbing Mount Everest.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Without the antidote, Blossom and Bubbles turn into giant warthogs.
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks: Schedule Bot does this when he sees Blossom and Bubbles turning into warthogs.
- Broken Record: Schedule Bot when needing to remind Buttercup of giving Blossom and Bubbles their medicine.Schedule Bot: Antidote time! Antidote time! Antidote time!
- Funny Background Event: As Prof. Utonium is talking about how well-behaved his girls are, Blossom and Bubbles, transformed into giant warthogs, are seen rampaging outside the window.
- Giant Food: Cornossus, the giant ear of corn at the facility Prof. Utonium is applying, which also attracts the attention of Warthog Blossom and Bubbles.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Buttercup getting sick.
- Hypocritical Humor: After finding out Blossom and Bubbles are warthogs. Schedule Bot makes a snarky remark to Buttercup about not informing her of the symptoms of Spotted Piglet Fever.Buttercup: Listen we need to get serious. Now I'm gonna do triple back flip cartwheel out this window and stop my warthog sisters from destroying the town. (Buttercup does just that).
- Irony: After all the trouble Buttercup goes through to enjoy her day off from school, she winds up sick with Spotted Piglet Fever herself.
- Karma Houdini: Zig-Zagged. The Professor never finds out Buttercup neglected her duties. But Buttercup ends up coming down with the Spotted-Pig Fever herself at the end.
- Magic Antidote: Once Buttercup gets Warthog Bubbles and Blossom to drink the antidote, they instantly turn back to normal. It doesn't completely cure them however, just reverses their transformation.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: The only way to get the girls to drink the antidote is to sing the "Antidote Song".
- Nightmare Face: Buttercup makes one when she gets frustrated at Schedule Bot and needs to learn the right lyrics to the "Antidote Song" to cure Blossom and Bubbles.
- Now You Tell Me: Said word for word when Buttercup notices that Blossom and Bubbles are giant warthogs.Schedule Bot: Without the antidote, one of the side effects of Spotted Piglet Fever is Giant Warthog-ism.Buttercup: Ugh! Now you tell me!Schedule Bot: I am Schedule Bot, not Information Bot.
- Shout-Out:
- Judge Trudy to Judge Judy or possibly to The Amanda Show.
- One to Final Fight when a civilian has his car destroyed by Buttercup being knocked onto it.
Civilian: Oh! My precious! - Sick Episode: For Blossom and Bubbles, and Buttercup in the end.
